Crafty

I finally spent some time in my craft room to make a calendar for Annette. It turned out sooo cute, I can't wait to make one of my own. Coming up with ideas for 31 different magnets was the only tough part of this project.

Girls' Trip to Bellingham

Kimberly, Mom and I went to Bellingham to spend a long weekend with Laurie and Koko. We had such a great time. We flew into Seattle, rented a car and drove to Laurie's house. We put our stuff down and drove over to Lake Padden only about a mile from Laurie's house. We took Koko with us. It is so green and lush...



After Laurie got home we went to do some touring and to dinner. The next day we got up, went to breakfast at The Bagelry, and headed for tulip country. The fields of tulips were so beautiful! First we went to Tulip Town then we went to Roozengard.






After tulip gazing we went to the town of La Conner. We ate fish and chips out on a deck on the water, and enjoyed GREAT shopping!

Sunday we went to tea for lunch and had great tea, sandwiches, desserts and scones. We had such a nice time. That day we also visited Chuckanut Dr., Birch Bay, Larrbee State Park, and Semiahmooo State Park. Kimberly and I were almost washed away by the incoming tide while we were standing on a sand dune, it was pretty funny!
We had such a great trip, I could have stayed a few more days!

Valentine's Day Treats

The girls made cute Valentines for their classes, they did almost all of the work themselves, they turned out cute.




I had fun making gifts for each of the teachers, thanks to some help from the Target dollar spot. And then there's the chocoloate dipped strawberries, who doesn't love those? Okay, maybe my sister, she doesn't like strawberries.



So have a wonderful Valentine's Day! Let me know in your comment what your Valentine's Day plans are...

Back to Blogging

My good friend Janan and her family came over the other night, and she helped me change my blog background and such. I have been wanting to change things, but couldn't remember how. The last time I changed anything was when Lexi did it for me many months ago. So with the new look (and knowledge) I will be motivated to keep up on my blogging. I even added music, can you believe it? I'm starting to scare myself.

O.C. Tanner Gift of Music Concert

Last night Matt and I were able to attend our first event at the Conference Center. Wow, it was incredible. Andy had gotten tickets and invited us to go with him and Emily. The Conference Center is huge and so nice!




We made it to our seats and were chatting along with everyone else, and suddenly just before the concert was to begin, it was quiet and everyone stood. President Monson was walking to his seat. It was so cool to be there, I get chills just thinking about it. We loved the concert, the theme was "An American Songbook" so it was very patriotic. It made me remember how truly grateful I am to be back in the United States. When the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang "Come, Come Ye Saints" accompanied by the Utah Symphony, I had goosebumps. Brian Stokes Mitchell and Denyce Graves were guests as well as Guest Conductor Erich Kunzel, the conductor of the Cincinatti Pops. Mitchell has an INCREDIBLE voice- we really enjoyed him. And as an added joy for Matt the encore number was "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Our "Grand Finale" was Cheesecake Factory for dinner (at 10pm) YUMMY!!!!

Charlie's Chili

We have so many pictures from the summer, I don't even know where to start. This is one of my favorite pictures from the beach trip. We have to eat at Charlie's each year, but I had never taken a picture of it, I finally remembered. Charlie's Chili is near the pier at Newport Beach. We had such a great time at the beach!

The Big Move Update

So everything out of the house is gone. Matt has been working his tail off for many days now cleaning and getting ready for us to check into the hotel. In some ways it feels like we just arrived in Italy and in other ways it feels like we've been here for a very long time. Our movers were very nice, three were from Romania, one from Italy. They were friendly and good workers. They had us all packed up and loaded in 1 1/2 days, which is simply amazing to me! I'm not sure how many crates we ended up having, coming over we had 7. I know we went over that, yesterday alone they loaded up 6. But I'm sure we are still way under our 16,000 + lb. allotment. Matt was joking with the guys that about 2,000 lbs of that was dishes. I was laughing, ha, ha, ha, and the one guy who packed most of it said, "Yeah, that's about right, 2,000 lbs." Oops! Well, it's nice to have the house packed up, now we need to clean the beast, UGH!